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By Ossi Turunen, Bournemouth University The salmon and trout parr tagging at River Frome has come to an end, yet again. 2019 was my second year with the SAMARCH research team during the intense three weeks during which a total

Part 1 During April 2019 I took part in a university placement with the European SAMARCH project, which involved cataloguing the scale samples collected from thousands of different Atlantic salmon collected since the 1950’s! The cataloguing started with procuring the

By Bianka Tarbay (Bournemouth University): I was very lucky to gain work experience with the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust where my job was to help out with the monitoring of the salmon smolts. Our main job was to collect

By Jake Hill. SAMARCH is a wonderful opportunity for any up and coming ecologist, not only did I get the chance to enhance my skills filed work and data collection but also had the opportunity to network with people that

By Ossi Turunen, Bournemouth University Since the monitoring of the spring smolt run for Frome started in March, the SAMARCH team has been working non-stop to collect as much data on the salmon and sea trout smolts as possible. I

SAMARCH Work Package WP T3 co-leads Etienne Rivot and Stephen Gregory both attended this year’s ICES WGNAS. Every year, the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) is asked to provide information and recommendations on Atlantic salmon stocks

By Ossi Turunen, Bournemouth University Since having done my internship with the SAMARCH project in the autumn of 2018, I have been working on a communications work package in order to produce a newsletter for the SAMARCH project. This newsletter

By Ossi Turunen, Bournemouth University The Family Science Festival took place in Dorchester Corn Exchange (Dorset, UK) on Sunday 17 March and SAMARCH took part of this great event to celebrate the International Year of the Salmon. The Festival was

International scientists specialising in trout and sea trout were hosted by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust and the SAMARCH project during the last week of February. The group is a science group (WGTRUTTA) within the International Council for the

The latest round of our sea trout kelt tagging programme has recently been completed. Despite high water and flooding for most of November and December, between late Nov to Feb we caught some 120 sea trout kelts on the Frome,